Jazz/not jazz : the music and its boundaries / edited by David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Goldmark.

What is jazz? What is gained--and what is lost--when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Ake, David Andrew, 1961- (Editor), Garrett, Charles Hiroshi, 1966- (Editor), Goldmark, Daniel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Series:Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography
  • Chapter 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo
  • Chapter 3. The Humor of Jazz
  • Chapter 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community
  • Chapter 5. Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just ... Jazz
  • Chapter 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook
  • Chapter 7. "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Records and the Problems of Genre
  • Chapter 8. The Praxis of Composition-Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship
  • Chapter 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz
  • Chapter 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education
  • Chapter 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education
  • Chapter 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The "Subjectless Subject" of New Jazz Studies.